Hampton candidates in the races

Election 2010

March 03, 2010|By By Samieh Shalash | 247-4537

Hampton School Board

Five candidates are running for three available seats on the Hampton School Board. Up for re-election are seats held by Lennie Routten, Henry Godfrey and Linwood "Butch" Harper. Two candidates, Routten and civil activist Rudy Langford, who originally announced plans to run have decided not to.

Here, as of 7 p.m. Tuesday, is a list of who has officially filed for candidacy:

Henry Godfrey, 75, has filed for re-election to Seat A of the Hampton Roads District. He is a retired educator who has been on the Hampton School Board since 1997.

Jennifer Phillips, 48, has filed to run for Seat A in the Hampton Roads District, which is currently held by Henry Godfrey. Phillips has two children in the school system and has been the School Board delegate for the Hampton Council of PTAs since 2008.

Linwood "Butch" Harper, 62, has filed for re-election to Seat B of the Hampton Roads District. He is a retired educator who has been on the board since 1994. His seat is uncontested.

Sharon Warren, 53, has filed to run for Seat A in the Chesapeake District, which has been held by Routten since 1996. Warren is retiring this year as the director of special education for Hampton. She has been an educator for 31 years and spent the last 12 in her current position.

Joe Kilgore, 46, has also filed for Seat A in the Chesapeake District. Kilgore has two children in the school system and has served on the district's policy-making committee. He is an engineering manager at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. His wife, Kathy, is a second-grade teacher at Langley Elementary School.

Hampton City Council

Six candidates are running for three spots on Hampton's City Council. Up for grabs are the seats held by Paige Washington Jr., Randy Gilliland and Joseph Spencer II.

Here are the candidates who have filed to run as of the deadline at 7 p.m. Tuesday:

Washington, a current council member who was first elected in 1996 and was vice mayor from 2002-2004. He is a collections manager at Hampton University, and the only incumbent in this race.

Larry Gwaltney, 60, worked for the Hampton Division of Fire and Rescue from 1985 to 2009. He is a graduate of Hampton High School and holds a bachelor's degree in fire administration from Hampton University.

Will Moffett, 55, is vice chairman of Hampton Redevelopment and Housing Authority. He was instrumental in establishing the Y. H. Thomas Community Center.

Chris Stuart, 39, is vice president of business development at Top Guard Security. He is a Rotarian and on the board of the Virginia Air & Space Center, New Horizons, Old Dominion Alumni Association, Virginia Security Association and Thomas Nelson Community College's Board of Trustees.

Donnie Tuck, a Hampton resident, ran for City Council in 2006 and 2008. In the past, Tuck has been critical of the cost of administration at City Hall.

Theresa Sellers, 43, is a former contractor for NASA. She is a member of the League of Women Voters and a Cub Scout leader for Pack 218.